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LIVE AT LUCKY BARN: Dom Flemons, ‘Going Down the Road Feeling Bad’

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We've teamed up with the good people at Pickathon to present a season's worth of archival — and incredible — videos from the Pacific Northwest festival's Lucky Barn Series. Tune in every fourth Tuesday of the month to catch a new clip.

In the third video of the series, Dom Flemons and his trusty sidekicks lead the Lucky Barn crowd in a sing-along of "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad." Flemons dubs himself an "American songster" and explains that "before we starting making records, as a culture, songsters were the musicians that knew a bunch of songs and would play them for the community." (He also jokes about "folk" being a four-letter word.) In his plaid shirt and porkpie hat, Flemons lives up to that self-designated title and lets everyone stretch their wings a little bit on this one, with a fierce fiddle run, a bouncing brush breakdown, and a clap-powered chorus. 

Pickathon comes back to the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon from August 5-7, 2016. Click here for more, and stay tuned for an exciting season of Lucky Barn videos.

Photo credit: Anthony Pidgeon

LIVE AT LUCKY BARN: Billy Strings & Don Julin, ‘Meet Me at the Creek’

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We've teamed up with the good people at Pickathon to present a season's worth of archival — and incredible — videos from the Pacific Northwest festival's Lucky Barn Series. Tune in every fourth Tuesday of the month to catch a new clip.

For the second installment of Live at Lucky Barn from Pickathon 2015, Billy Strings and Don Julin team up to play the hell out of "Meet Me at the Creek." The two spend a good chunk of the eight-minute performance trading licks. After the tune, Strings talks about how he started out playing bluegrass as a kid, but then he got an electric guitar when he was 11 or 12. "I had played bluegrass all my life and I really wanted to play with people my age, so I started playing with friends and people from my school," Strings says, adding, "and they were playing heavy metal and really heavy stuff." Eventually, though he dug back into his roots.

Pickathon comes back to the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon from August 5-7, 2016. Click here for more, and stay tuned for an exciting season of Lucky Barn videos.

Photo credit: Dylan WanWeelden

WATCH: Pickathon 2015 Live Stream

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Pickathon kicks off today on Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, OR, with seven stages and three days of music for your listening pleasure. Dozens of artists are slated to perform “in the woods, under the stars, and in two air-conditioned barns.” But you don't have to be there in person to enjoy the festivities. In association with Oregon Public Broadcasting, Pickathon is live streaming right here on the BGS from all seven stages thanks to the sponsorship of Klean Kanteen, Marmoset, and Haggen.

FRIDAY, JULY 31
12:40 – 1:40 pm – Woods Stage – Sam Amidon
1:40 – 2:40 pm – Mountain Stage – Sam Cohen
3:00 – 4:00 pm – Galaxy Barn – Joseph
4:10 – 5:10 pm – Woods Stage – Rodrigo Amarante
5:10 – 6:10 pm – Lucky Barn – Happyness
6:20 – 7:20 pm – Mountain Stage – Kamasi Washington
7:30 – 8:30 pm – Woods Stage – Ryley Walker
8:40 – 9:40 pm – Mountain Stage – Cloud Nothings
9:40 – 10:40 pm – Galaxy Barn – Meatbodies
10:50 – 11:50 pm – Starlight Stage – Hiss Golden Messenger
1:00 – 2:00 am – Galaxy Barn – Wolf People

SATURDAY, AUGUST 1
11:20 am – 12:20 pm – Woods Stage – Jessica Pratt
12:20 – 1:20 pm – Mountain Stage – Ex Hex
1:20 – 2:20 pm – Galaxy Barn – Kevin Morby
2:40 – 3:40 pm – Wood Stage – Mandolin Orange
3:40 – 4:40 pm – Lucky Barn – Dom Flemons
5:00 – 6:00 pm – Mountain Stage – JD McPherson
6:00 – 7:00 pm – Woods Stave – Broncho
7:20 – 8:30 pm – Mountain Stage – Turnpike Troubadours
8:40 – 9:40 pm – Meadow Stage – Shabazz Palaces
9:40 – 10:50 pm – Woods Stage – DIIV
11:20 pm – 12:20 am – Galaxy Barn – Viet Cong
12:30 – 1:30 am – Starlight Stage – Tinariwen

SUNDAY, AUGUST 2
11:20 am – 12:20pm – Mountain Stage – Liz Vice
12:30 – 1:30 pm – Lucky Barn – The Weather Station
1:40 – 2:40 pm – Mountain Stage – Vetiver
2:40 – 3:40 pm – Woods Stage – Ty Segall
4:00 – 5:00 pm – Mountain Stage – Freakwater
5:10 – 6:10 pm – Meadow Stage – BRONCHO
6:30 – 7:30 pm – Lucky Barn – Ernest Ranglin
7:40 – 8:50 pm – Woods Stage tUnE-yArDs
8:50 – 10:00 pm – Mountain Stage – Leon Bridges
10:00 – 11:00 pm – Starlight Stage – King Tuff
11:30 pm – 12:30 am – Starlight Stage – Thundercat
1:00 – 2:00 am – Galaxy Barn – Cloud Nothing